Amazon RDS alternatives
At a 10 GB production app, Amazon RDS costs $13.98 a month. 1 database platform costs less, from $6.36 (Firebase). Ranked by price at the size you pick, with free plans, price hikes and how to switch.
Alternatives to Amazon RDS at a 10 GB production app, cheapest first
- Firebase: $6.36/mo Iowa (us-central1), Standard edition; backups added (Blaze pay-as-you-go, Cloud Firestore Standard edition, Iowa (us-central1), default on-demand prices, after free quotas). Free plan: Spark plan: 1 GiB stored, 50K reads, 20K writes and 20K deletes a day, 10 GiB egress a month; Blaze keeps the same quotas free..
- Neon: $23.75/mo 24/7 at 0.25 CU; backups at $0.09/GB snapshot rate (Launch plan at monthly on-demand list prices (no annual prices stated).). Free plan: Free plan: $0, no card, ongoing (not a trial); 100 CU-hours, 1 GB storage and 5 GB public egress per project; compute suspends after 5 min idle..
- Supabase: $25.25/mo Micro compute covered by the $10 Pro credit (Pro plan ($25/mo) with one Micro compute instance (covered by the $10 credit) and 10 GB of disk.). Free plan: Free plan: 500 MB database, 2 active projects, 5 GB egress, 50,000 MAU, no backups; pauses after 1 week idle..
- MongoDB Atlas: $178.40/mo 3-node replica set: billed per node, 3x list (Dedicated M10 as a three-node replica set at AWS rates (low end of the published ranges, assumed US), 10 GB storage, 7-d). Free plan: M0 is free forever with 512 MB storage, shared resources and up to 100 ops/sec; its page says it is for learning and exploring, and no production ban is stated..
Prices at every size
- Amazon RDS: a 10 GB production app $13.98/mo, a 250 MB side project $13.98/mo, a 100 GB growing app $67.95/mo (Single-AZ on-demand; prices from US East (Ohio) page)
- Firebase: a 10 GB production app $6.36/mo, a 250 MB side project free, a 100 GB growing app $84.76/mo (Iowa (us-central1), Standard edition; backups added)
- Neon: a 10 GB production app $23.75/mo, a 250 MB side project free, a 100 GB growing app $121.38/mo (24/7 at 0.25 CU; backups at $0.09/GB snapshot rate)
- Supabase: a 10 GB production app $25.25/mo, a 250 MB side project free, a 100 GB growing app $86.50/mo (Micro compute covered by the $10 Pro credit)
- MongoDB Atlas: a 10 GB production app $178.40/mo, a 250 MB side project free, a 100 GB growing app no public price (3-node replica set: billed per node, 3x list)
Every price is the monthly cost, at list prices on monthly billing, of running the same app database in a US region: a 10 GB production app (the headline), a 250 MB side project and a 100 GB growing app, each with a fixed number of reads, writes and developers, on the cheapest self-serve plan that fully covers it. Free plans count when they cover the whole job and allow production use; trials and sign-up credits do not.
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